Ocular surface reconstruction with a tissue-engineered nasal mucosal epithelial cell sheet for the treatment of severe ocular surface diseases

Kobayashi, Masakazu and Nakamura, Takahiro and Yasuda, Makoto and Hata, Yuiko and Okura, Shoki and Iwamoto, Miyu and Nagata, Maho and Fullwood, Nigel J. and Koizumi, Noriko and Hisa, Yasuo and Kinoshita, Shigeru (2015) Ocular surface reconstruction with a tissue-engineered nasal mucosal epithelial cell sheet for the treatment of severe ocular surface diseases. Stem Cells Translational Medicine, 4 (1). pp. 99-109. ISSN 2157-6564

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Abstract

Severe ocular surface diseases (OSDs) with severe dry eye can be devastating and are currently some of the most challenging eye disorders to treat. To investigate the feasibility of using an autologous tissue-engineered cultivated nasal mucosal epithelial cell sheet (CNMES) for ocular surface reconstruction, we developed a novel technique for the culture of nasal mucosal epithelial cells expanded ex vivo from biopsy-derived human nasal mucosal tissues. After the protocol, the CNMESs had 4-5 layers of stratified, well-differentiated cells, and we successfully generated cultured epithelial sheets, including numerous goblet cells. Immunohistochemistry confirmed the presence of keratins 3, 4, and 13; mucins 1, 16, and 5AC; cell junction and basement membrane assembly proteins; and stem/progenitor cell marker p75 in the CNMESs. We then transplanted the CNMESs onto the ocular surfaces of rabbits and confirmed the survival of this tissue, including the goblet cells, up to 2 weeks. The present report describes an attempt to overcome the problems of treating severe OSDs with the most severe dry eye by treating them using tissue-engineered CNMESs to supply functional goblet cells and to stabilize and reconstruct the ocular surface. The present study is a first step toward assessing the use of tissue-engineered goblet-cell transplantation of nonocular surface origin for ocular surface reconstruction.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Stem Cells Translational Medicine
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? nasal mucosa ocular surfacedry eyegoblet cellmucingeneral medicinedevelopmental biologycell biologymedicine(all) ??
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73076
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Deposited On:
02 Mar 2015 13:44
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Yes
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Published
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